Quionga

Quionga, formerly Kionga, village, Cabo (Cape) Delgado province, extreme northeastern Mozambique, East Africa, just south of the Rio Rovuma. In 1886 Germany and Portugal had agreed on the Rovuma as the boundary between then German East Africa (now Tanzania) and Portuguese Mozambique, but the Germans later claimed (1892) that Portugal had no rights north of Cabo Delgado, approximately 20 miles (32 km) south of the Rovuma’s mouth. In 1894 the German navy took Quionga, and German forces occupied its hinterland, the “Kionga triangle” (approximately 245 square miles [395 square km]). In World War I the area was retaken by the Portuguese, and under the Treaty of Versailles it became Portugal’s only territorial acquisition of the war. Pop. (latest census) village, 2,456.